"The knowledge that life is worthless is the flower of all human wisdom."
From the moment I'm at rock bottom and have nothing to offer, things pass before my eyes that I would never see in another situation. If one day I get out of this i will never be able to love again
When you have nothing you realize that everything revolves around mere desire, mere pleasure, mere interest.
It's not really worth devoting yourself to the feelings of this world, a chess game of whoever takes advantage of the other
What exists is pleasure, but human beings want to impose an infinity, an absurdity, the metaphysically impossible on these banal things because we know that only infinity is capable of filling the empty that they have in their hearts, and that no other animal has, we finally understand the stars and together with them we bring to us the void of space
"But to Zapffe, consciousness would long past have proved fatal for human beings if we did not do something about it.
“Why,” Zapffe asked, “has mankind not long ago gone extinct during great epidemics of madness? Why do only a fairly minor number of individuals perish because they fail to endure the strain of living— because cognition gives them more than they can carry?” Zapffe’s answer: “Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness”"
From the moment I'm at rock bottom and have nothing to offer, things pass before my eyes that I would never see in another situation. If one day I get out of this i will never be able to love again
When you have nothing you realize that everything revolves around mere desire, mere pleasure, mere interest.
It's not really worth devoting yourself to the feelings of this world, a chess game of whoever takes advantage of the other
What exists is pleasure, but human beings want to impose an infinity, an absurdity, the metaphysically impossible on these banal things because we know that only infinity is capable of filling the empty that they have in their hearts, and that no other animal has, we finally understand the stars and together with them we bring to us the void of space
"But to Zapffe, consciousness would long past have proved fatal for human beings if we did not do something about it.
“Why,” Zapffe asked, “has mankind not long ago gone extinct during great epidemics of madness? Why do only a fairly minor number of individuals perish because they fail to endure the strain of living— because cognition gives them more than they can carry?” Zapffe’s answer: “Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness”"
